- Test debut v Bangladesh at Karachi - August 2003
- ODI debut v Zimbabwe at Sharjah - April 2003
- He had played just nine first-class matches when first selected for the national side after the 2003 World Cup.
- He is a master of control and is able to extract movement off the seam to trouble the best.
- He became the only player ever dismissed without facing a ball on his Test debut.
- Against India in 2003/4 he tore through the top order to take five for 31 to give Pakistan the early initiative and they subsequently won the match and levelled the series.July 2009